Harmony Row (film)

Harmony Row is a 1933 Australian musical comedy directed by F. W. Thring and Raymond Longford and starring popular stage comedian George Wallace. It marked the film debut of Bill Kerr.

Plot
George enlists in the police force and is assigned to Harmony Row, a haunt of criminals such as Slogger Lee. He makes several friends, including the pretty street musician Molly, and boy soprano Leonard. He is persuaded to fight Slogger Lee in a boxing tournament. He manages to defeat Slogger and win, and is united with Molly.

Cast

 * George Wallace as Contable Dreadnought
 * Phyllis Baker as Molly
 * Marshall Crosby as the sergeant
 * John Dobbie as Slogger Lee
 * Bill Kerr as Leonard
 * Bill Innes as Detective Brooks
 * Edwin Brett as the father
 * Norman Shepherd as the butler
 * Norman French as the husband
 * Bebe Scott as the wife
 * Gertrude Boswell as the housekeeper
 * Leonard Stephens as the Ferrett
 * Dan Thomas
 * Nell Fleming
 * Nell Crane
 * Elza Stenning
 * Thelma Scott
 * Dorothy Weeks
 * Johnny Marks
 * Campbell Copelin

Original play
The film was based on a revue Wallace had performed in the 1920s. It was one of a series of "revusicals" written by Wallace during this period.

Production
The film marked the feature film debut of Bill Kerr who had been cast by Thring in a proposed movie called Pick and the Duffers. That movie was not made but he was then cast in Harmony Row.

The full version of the film features a haunted house sequence where George unravels a mystery in a mansion. In some versions of the film this sequence was cut and replaced with one where George arrests a high society gentlemen (Campbell Copelin), thinking he's a thief.

Reception
The film was released on a double bill with Diggers in Blighty and was a success at the box office. The two films grossed £8000 in Melbourne and £3070 in two weeks in Sydney.

The critic from The Sydney Morning Herald called it "the first really successful picture that Efftee Films have produced."

The film was released in England.